A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Paz satellite for Madrid-based operator Hisdesat, becoming Spain’s first radar observation satellite as part of the National Earth Observation Program. The satellite is completing a multi-purpose mission, collecting radar imagery for application in national security and defence, civilian applications, science and commercial exploitation. The 1,400-Kilogram satellite carries an X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar capable of delivering imagery at a ground resolution of one meter, capturing around 200 scenes per day. Paz was originally planned to fly on a Dnepr booster, but as the vehicle fell victim to the political conflict between the Ukraine and Russia the mission was moved to a SpaceX Falcon 9 after encountering nearly three years of delays.

A Russian Soyuz 2-1v rocket will lift off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome with the experimental EMKA satellite. The mission was originally planned for December 2017 but slipped for unknown reasons. Its payload is identified as a small experimental satellite flying in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defence.

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, flying in its XL configuration, will launch the IRNSS-1I Navigation Satellite into a sub-Geostationary Transfer Orbit to replenish the country’s Navic Regional Navigation Satellite System. This launch follows up on the 2017 Failure of the PSLV rocket lifting the IRNSS-1H satellite originally intended to replace the first satellite in the seven-satellite constellation which has lost its atomic clocks due to a design flaw and left the system without redundancy. Spiraling up into Geosynchronous Orbit, the satellite will replace IRNSS-1A and restore the constellation to full capacity.